Considerations on COM(2022)572 - EU position in the Committee on Customs with Singapore on amending Protocol 1 concerning the definition of ‘originating products’ and administrative cooperation - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2022)572 - EU position in the Committee on Customs with Singapore on amending Protocol 1 concerning the definition of ‘originating ... |
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| document | COM(2022)572  |
| date | December 12, 2022 |
| (2) | Pursuant to Article 34 of Protocol 1 to the Agreement, the Committee on Customs may adopt Decisions to amend the provisions of that Protocol. |
| (3) | The Committee on Customs, during its first meeting, is to adopt a Decision amending Protocol 1 and its Annexes (‘the Decision’). |
| (4) | It is appropriate to establish the position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf in the Committee on Customs, as the Decision will be binding on the Union. |
| (5) | Amendments to the Protocol were introduced on 1 January 2012, on 1 January 2017 and on 1 January 2022 in relation to the nomenclature governed by the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (‘HS’). The Decision is necessary to update Protocol 1 and its Annexes to reflect the latest version of the HS. |
| (6) | The scope of the annual quotas set out in Annex B(a) to Protocol 1 for canned luncheon meat, curry fish balls and cuttlefish balls should be expanded in order to allow Singaporean exporters to use them. |
| (7) | In order to provide for equal treatment of the economic operators in both Parties as regard the certification of the origin, Protocol 1 should be amended so that each Party may decide, according to its laws and regulations, which exporter may self-certify the origin of its originating goods. In the Union, this will allow the origin of the goods to be certified by registered exporters instead of by approved exporters, similarly to the system applied by Singapore in the context of the Agreement, |